Amplify My Community announced today that it will host a series of musical performances on Friday, April 22 and Sunday, April 24.

The main event, the Amplify Decatur Music Festival, is to be held Saturday, April 23 on the downtown Decatur Square and will feature three-time Grammy Award winner Ben Harper, two-time Grammy Award winners Old Crow Medicine Show, Americana legends Son Volt, and acclaimed soul performers The War and Treaty. Fans can purchase tickets at AmplifyDecatur.org.

Friday, April 22 features a number of performances, including:

Downtown Decatur Gazebo, 6-10 p.m.
• Tiger Kings, 6 p.m.
• Polly Holiday, 7 p.m.
• Canyonland, 8 p.m.
• Canyonland is Michelle Malone, Doug Kees, and Nelson Nolen (and special guests) playing the greatest ’70s country rock songs of Laurel Canyon. If you like Linda Ronstadt, The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, CSN, Emmylou Harris, Jackson Browne, and more, you’ll love Canyonland’s stripped-down versions of these classic singer-songwriter tunes with acoustic guitars, mandolin, percussion, and three-part harmonies.

Brick Store Pub, 6-10 p.m.
• Kristen Englenz
• Mark Miller

Leon’s Full Service, 6-10 p.m.
• The Bantam Breaks
• Mermaid Motor Lounge

Waller’s Coffee Shop, 8-10 p.m.
• Donna and the Wolfman

Mellow Mushroom, 6-10 p.m.
• James Richards and friends

Eddie’s Attic, 6-11 p.m.
• Becky Shaw, Caroline Herring, Emily Backus
• Curtis Grimes


On Sunday, April 24, Amplify will host a show at Eddie’s Attic called Get Back: Celebrating Songs from the “Let It Be” Sessions. The Beatles played more than 100 songs during the “Get Back” sessions that produced the album, "Let It Be," including dozens that belong to others such as Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, The Everly Brothers, Elvis, Johnny Cash, Sam Cooke, Buddy Holly, and Ray Charles. Join Amplify My Community as we celebrate the legendary "Get Back" sessions by opening the Beatles songbook to a collection of regional and local artists. Performers include: GhostStories, Jon Harris of The Sundogs, Slow Parade, Kristen Englenz, Mike Killeen, Morgan Rowe, Wyatt Espalin, and Brian Bice.

Amplify Decatur is presented by Lenz and produced in partnership with Eddie’s Attic. All proceeds will be directed to Decatur Cooperative Ministry (DCM) to aid their efforts to prevent and alleviate homelessness in Decatur and DeKalb County. The 2021 festival weekend was held in October and featured Indigo Girls, John Paul White, Rodney Crowell, Blind Boys of Alabama, and Michelle Malone, and raised $50,000 for DCM.

“We’re excited about this incredible group of performers, and the opportunity to continue to support Decatur Cooperative Ministry’s vital work in our community,” said Drew Robinson, president of the Amplify My Community board. “We are eternally grateful to the city of Decatur, Eddie’s Attic, and so many incredible sponsors, especially Lenz, for making our community stronger through the power of live music.”

Sponsors include Lenz, Eddie’s Attic, Decatur Package Store, Leafmore Group, Iris and Bruce Feinberg, Oakhurst Realty Partners, Natalie Gregory & Co., Georgia Urology, Plumb Works, Hall Booth Smith, Brick Store Pub, Viral Solutions, Hall Booth Smith, Topo Chico, Trov Home, Verisail Partners, Travis Grubb Real Estate, WABE 901. FM, Cox Media Group, Savannah Distributing Co., Three Taverns, and Creature Comforts Brewing Co.

Amplify My Community was founded in 2010 and is based in Decatur, Georgia. Its mission is to leverage the universal love of music to fight poverty at the local level. To date, Amplify has produced more than 90 concerts, and raised and donated more than $450,000 in unrestricted gifts to locally oriented anti-homelessness and poverty-focused organizations — including more than $315,000 in Decatur. Amplify has held concert series in Atlanta, Athens, Decatur, Suwanee, and Duluth, Georgia; Asheville and Charlotte, North Carolina; Nashville, Tennessee; and Charlottesville, Virginia, and featured acts such as Indigo Girls, Lucinda Williams, Jeff Tweedy, Mavis Staples, Blind Boys of Alabama, Rodney Crowell, John Paul White, Justin Townes Earle, Bruce Hornsby, Milk Carton Kids, Ricky Skaggs, Julien Baker, Drivin’ N Cryin’, Junior Brown, Amanda Shires, Bobby Bare, Jr., Lucero, Colin Meloy, The Mavericks, Shawn Mullins, The Lone Bellow, The Jayhawks, Jay Farrar, and Harold Holloway & Co.

Decatur Cooperative Ministry’s mission is to help families facing homelessness settle into safe, stable homes and build healthy lives filled with peace, hope, and opportunity. Founded in 1969, Decatur Cooperative Ministry (DCM) offers transitional housing, shelter, homelessness prevention, rapid re-housing, and permanent supportive housing programs. DMC’s programs span the entire spectrum of currently recognized homelessness interventions. To accomplish this, DCM partners with 35 congregations from 14 denominations as well as private foundations, universities and schools, government agencies, community groups, and local businesses.